Grocery stores · South Carolina

KJ's Market IGA #627

West Columbia, SC · ~58 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KJ's Market IGA #627 runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

KJ's Market IGA #627: 3.9 TCR = 114% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KJ's Market IGA #627 safety composite

KJ's Market IGA #627 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

KJ's Market IGA #627: 4.3 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2024

KJ's Market IGA #627's TCR rose 4.0 from 4.3 in 2021 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · West Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 114% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #427/789
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 014
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 014 (0.0 TCR gap)

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KJ's Market IGA #627 in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows KJ's Market IGA #627 averages 3.9 TCR (114% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

KJ's Market IGA #627 TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where KJ's Market IGA #627 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #427 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

KJ's Market IGA #627 (58 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate KJ's Market IGA #627
KJ's Market IGA #627 (58 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

KJ's Market IGA #627 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 8.3 5.5 3 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · West Columbia

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Columbia, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 014 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wegmans Ocean Township 009 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0493 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0765 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE URQUHART STEAM PLANT 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Operations Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN INSTALLATIONS, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fuji Film 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-121 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jay Wolfe Imports of Missouri Inc (AKC) 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas Health Frisco 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovation Bakers LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE GH Cranes & Components USA Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE KME 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockdale Project 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penumbra, Inc. - Salt Lake City 58 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.